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Why is polaris an important star?

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Why is polaris an important star?

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Due to the precession of the equinoxes, Polaris will not always be the pole star. Over tens of thousands of years, changes to the Earth’s axis of rotation will cause it to point to other regions of the sky, tracing out a circle over 25,000 years.

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